MATLAB Programming Fundamentals - MathWorks

str is a 2-by-3 string array. You can find the lengths of the strings with the strlength

function.

whos str

Name Size Bytes Class Attributes

str 2x3 484 string

L = strlength(str)

L = 2×3

7 6 6

6 8 3

As an alternative, you also can convert a cell array of character vectors to a string array

using the string function.

C = {'Mercury','Venus','Earth'};

str = string(C)

str = 1x3 string array

"Mercury" "Venus" "Earth"

Use string arrays to store and work with multiple pieces of text. You can find and replace

substrings, sort and reshape string arrays, and work with text as data. For more

information on string arrays, see “Create String Arrays” on page 6-12.

See Also

cellstr | char | string | strlength

Related Examples

• “Create Character Arrays” on page 6-6


• “Create String Arrays” on page 6-12


• “Analyze Text Data with String Arrays” on page 6-24


• “Cell Arrays of Character Vectors” on page 6-21

6 Characters and Strings